Link Checker

What is Link Checker?

Link Checker is an umbrella term for a set of tools and reports in Ahrefs. They help you find broken and harmful links on your website.

You should make every effort to fix these issues because both internal (pointing to other pages on your site) and external (pointing to pages on other sites) broken links contribute to a poor user experience. That’s also true of unnecessary redirects (3XX) and redirect chains.

Dead pages on your site are also bad news. They waste “link equity” and can have an adverse effect on rankings.

There are two main tools in Ahrefs to help you find and fix these problems: